Connell Cowan

Smart Women/Foolish Choices: Finding the Right Men Avoiding the Wrong Ones by Connell CowanWhy is that so many women have everything going for them-except satisfying personal relationships? In this breakthrough book-two clinical psychologists reveal the surprising answers.Writing from a much-needed male point of view,the authors tell why smart women are almost magnetically drawn to the wrong men and how they can change their love-defeating attitudes to open up new opportunities for romantic happiness."Get smart" about men by learning how to

-Broaden,not lower, your expectations
-Avoid all-too-common types like the Married Rat,the Psuedo-Liberated Male,and the Perpetual Adolescent
-Recognize :Diamonds in the Rough"
-Free yourself from "Love Addiction"
-And understand what really makes men fall in love-and stay that wayRead More...HidePages: 283AccoladesNew York Times Best Seller

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely will explore the many ways in which our behavior often leads us astray in terms of our romantic relationships, our experiences in the workplace, and our temptations to cheat. Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking analysis and new research into our decisionmaking processes, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities. In each chapter, Dan will examine data from original experiments to draw invaluable conclusions about how-and why-we behave the way we do in these areas of our lives. In an extension of his conclusions, Dan will also reflect on ways to make ourselves and our society better.

Among the topics Dan explores are:

What we think will make us happy and what really makes us happy;

How we learn to love the ones we are with;

Why online dating doesn′t work, and how we can improve on it;

Why learning more about people make us like them less;

Why large bonuses can make CEOs less productive;

How to really motivate people at work;

Why bad directions can help us;

How we fall in love with our ideas;

How we are motivated by revenge; and

What motivates us to cheat.

Drawing on the same experimental methods that made Predictably Irrational such a hit, Dan will emphasize the important role that irrationality plays in our day-to-day decisionmaking-not just in our financial marketplace, but in the most personal aspects of our lives.

Run Catch Kiss: A Gratifying Novel

Run Catch Kiss: A Gratifying Novelby Amy Sohn

From New York's most popular alternative-press columnist comes Run Catch Kiss, a sharp and irresistible novel of love, sex, scandal, and the pursuit of a boyfriend.

After graduating from Brown University, saucy, vivacious Ariel Steiner returns to her native New York City to become an actress and take the world by storm. Buoyed by daydreams of winning an Oscar, Ariel is determined to barrel into the limelight as Hollywood's hottest ingenue, and nothing can stand in her way -- nothing, that is, but her freshman fifteen pounds, a senile talent agent, and the fact that she's living with her parents in Brooklyn and sleeping in her childhood bedroom. After nearly landing a TV role as "a chunky young woman who works as a cashier and studies part-time at City College," Ariel is forced to face facts: she's got a long way to go before rocketing to stardom.

Living on a coffee, yogurt, and skinless chicken diet and temping for the "Corposhit" in a dingy, claustrophobic office, Ariel awaits her break. When she lands the title role in a rock-musical version of Lolita, she discovers a hidden talent for channeling her erotic fantasies and soon thereafter finds a job as a sex columnist at City Week, New York's hottest downtown weekly.

Before long, Ariel's tell-all tales of bad dates with junkies, commitmentphobes, and manic-depressives begin to wreak havoc on her life. The hate mail rolls in, along with sticky crush letters, and her parents learn far more about her than they ever wanted to know. When the objects of her affection realize that they may become subjects of her next steamy column, some refuse to have anything to do with her, while others beg for their fifteen minutes of fame. But when Ariel finally falls in love, her "material" takes on a new, er, passion that even she couldn't imagine, and she must decide who she really is: a nice Jewish girl who wants to settle down, or a brazen sex kitten who'd rather meet a deadline than the man of her dreams.

Mary-Kate Ashley Olsen Sweet 16#13- Love and Kisses

Mary-Kate Ashley Olsen Sweet 16#13- Love and Kissesby Louise Gikow

Mary-Kate and Ashley are more ubiquitous than ever before! Here in this latest SWEET 16 is a special Valentine's Day story...

Can Mary-Kate find a way to mend the broken hearts caused by her recent Valentine's article before the big day arrives...